This clue—“Mess up”—has turned up before in crosswords, and the answers below are those that successfully solved it in prior instances, offering a strong reference point.
Possible Answers:
- BOTCH
- MAKEAHASHOF
- TOUSLE
- RUFFLE
- RUIN
- FLUB
- BLOWIT
- GOOF
- MAR
- SPOIL
- HASH
- BLUNDER
- BUNGLE
- MUFF
Synonyms and Definitions
BOTCH
- Synonyms: ball up, bloomer, blooper, blow, blunder, bobble, bodge, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, boner, boo-boo, botch up, bumble, bungle, flub, fluff, foul up, foul-up, fuck up, fuckup, fumble, louse up, mishandle, muck up, muff, pratfall, screw up, spoil
- Definition: a humiliating error
TOUSLE
- Synonyms: dishevel, tangle
RUFFLE
- Synonyms: affray, choker, cock, cockle, disturbance, flick, flounce, fray, frill, furbelow, mix, neck ruff, pleat, prance, riffle, ripple, ruff, ruffle up, rumple, sashay, shuffle, strut, swagger, tittup, undulate
RUIN
- Synonyms: bankrupt, break, deflower, destroy, dilapidation, downfall, laying waste, ruination, ruining, smash, wrecking
FLUB
- Synonyms: botch
- Definition: a humiliating error
GOOF
- Synonyms: boob, bozo, buffoon, clown, cuckoo, drop the ball, fathead, goofball, goose, jackass, merry andrew, sin, twat, zany
- Definition: a man who is foolishly inept and unintelligent
MAR
- Synonyms: blemish, defect, impair, march, mutilate, vitiate
SPOIL
- Synonyms: baby, baffle, bilk, cocker, coddle, corrupt, cosset, cross, despoil, despoilation, despoilment, despoliation, featherbed, foil, frustrate, go bad, indulge, itch, mar, mollycoddle, pamper, plunder, queer, rape, scotch, spoilage, spoilation, spoiling, spoliation, thwart, violate
HASH
- Synonyms: haschisch, hasheesh, hashish
BLUNDER
- Synonyms: blunder out, blurt, blurt out, ejaculate, goof
MUFF
- Definition: a heated cylindrical protection for the hands